This weekend in Chicago, Common was presented with his Platinum plaque for ‘Be’ — his first album to sell a million copies. It took 20 years, but classics have no expiration date 🥂
I firmly believe we are headed back into an independent research led, underground, in person, hand to hand & word of mouth world of artist discovery and fan interaction
Shia LaBeouf explains why talent doesn't exist "There's only push-ups"
Host: "So it really was like luck of the draw thing or just talent randomly?"
"No I won the lottery, what the f*ck is talent Andrew"
"I won the lottery fool, I completely won the lottery dude, I won the lottery, I won a scratch off it's like that it's like I won a scratch off lottery there's no such thing as talent at all"
"Do you believe in talent?"
Host: "Yeah"
"Tell me"
Host: "I think it's an interviewer like listening as a talent but I do look back at certain things"
"No, that's a skill"
Host: "Okay so talent be like juggling or.."
"Which is also a skill"
Host: "Being able to exhale for 2 minutes straight"
"Which is also a skill"
Host: "So then by that criteria, I guess there's no talents?"
"Correct there's only push-ups"
Host: "So the 'Even Stevens' thing just hit random?"
"No it didn't hit random, I was prepared for the moment my dad was a Hustler he was taking me to comedy clubs all the time"
"I was talking shit to adults all the time when I got to meet a casting director I know how to talk shit to adults"
Host: "So you kind of were molded by your upbringing to be as position to do something"
"Correct, I did enough push-ups"
In Backrooms (2026), during Clark's first visit, the slippers and shoes he finds fused into the floor are the exact ones Bobby and Kat were wearing while they were filming that Captain Clark commercial back in the real world - meaning the complex was already copying their belongings even before they themselves ever entered the Backrooms.
The shoes being permanently swallowed by the floorboards act as an eerie foreshadowing: the Backrooms doesn't just copy objects, it copies the people and moments associated with them based on intense human memory. It implies that by being so deeply embedded in Clark's memory and his proximity to the Null Zone, Bobby and Kat's identities had already been marked and absorbed by the complex long before they ever set foot inside
Pulling this right on the heels of announcing that movies people had previously “purchased” on their platform will “no longer be available due to expired licensing agreements” is an interesting strategy.
Am I crazy for preferring to sit in the VERY front row and centered inside the movie theater???
It feels like I’m in there alone and in my head I imagine I’m in a private theater room in my mansion that I don’t have yet lmao